This manuscript consists of three essays that examine agents' interaction in various social dilemmas. Social dilemmas occur when rational agents have the incentive to behave in a way that does not maximize the welfare of ...

In existing economic literature on finance and economy, it is argued and generally accepted that financial intermediation contributes to economic growth though the contending argument is that financial development is simply ...

The unemployment rate in Japan has increased after the first oil crisis. Though its level is still low compared to other industrialized countries, the upward trend is significant. It is widely held that changes in labor ...

The purpose of theoretical and empirical production-location models is to determine the conditions under which locational stability is maintained in terms of transportation costs. The presence of variables in the theory ...

The present study is an econometric investigation into Nepal's foreign sector. Its foreign trade presents Nepal with a unique problem. While the small size of the country impels Nepal to resort to international trade, its ...

The Korean manufacturing sector has achieved an annual rate of 11.3 percent employment growth over the period 1963 to 1973, which is one of the highest rates among LDC's. To explain this high growth rate, we specified the ...

This dissertation seeks to apply the theory of customs union to five countries in the Indian sub-continent, namely, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri1anka and to measure ex-ante the static effects of such a customs ...

Enterprise inefficiency and disguised unemployment are major concerns of the Chinese government and have motivated economic reform policies. It has been argued that the Chinese urban industrial enterprises and workers have ...

In adopting an interest-pegging policy to finance the "Second World War, the Federal Reserve had essentially surrendered its ability to control the money supply. Monetary policy was implicitly abandoned. During the pegging ...

The objective of this study is to determine empirically the relation between the labor force participation and fertility of married women in Korea. This relation is one key to the long run population policy and short term ...

The main objective of this study is to explain two counter-intuitive behavior patterns: the elevated aspiration for female higher education and the low employment rate of highly educated married women in Korea. For this ...

The central focus of this study is to investigate household demand for Lancastrian housing characteristics in a system-wide approach in the Honolulu SMSA, and to investigate the effect of demographic difference across ...

This study investigates the tax structure of Thailand for the years 1969 and 1971, employing S-coefficients to measure, numerically, the gressivity of Thai individual taxes as well as the overall tax structure. In measuring ...

The neoclassical theory of production suggests that inter-country differences in labor productivity reflect the difference in factor proportions, mainly the capital-labor ratios, used by them. A decade ago, Richard R. ...

Recently, a considerable number of studies have been focused on housing markets. The literature on housing can be broadly classified into three categories: the determination of housing expenditures, the choice of residential ...

The monetary policy of Korea of the last two decades was apparently conducted in a systematic and predictable manner, and believed to be effective. However, according to the monetary policy ineffectiveness proposition, ...